Beispielsätze

Out of the black shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of the metal pipes.

What fearful shapes and shadows beset his path, amidst the dim and ghastly glare of a snowy night!

Right and left of us they towered, with the afternoon sun falling full upon them and bringing out all the glorious colours of this beautiful range, deep blue and purple in the shadows of the peaks, green and brown where grass and rock mingled, and an endless perspective of jagged rock and pointed crags, till these were themselves lost in the distance, where the snowy peaks rose grandly.

As we wound on our endless way, and the sun sank lower and lower behind us, the shadows of the evening began to creep round us.

He held in his hand an antique silver lamp, in which the flame burned without chimney or globe of any kind, throwing long quivering shadows as it flickered in the draught of the open door.

Moreover, the walls of my castle are broken; the shadows are many, and the wind breathes cold through the broken battlements and casements.

In the soft light the distant hills became melted, and the shadows in the valleys and gorges of velvety blackness.

It was a shock to me to turn from the wonderful smoky beauty of a sunset over London, with its lurid lights and inky shadows and all the marvellous tints that come on foul clouds even as on foul water, and to realise all the grim sternness of my own cold stone building, with its wealth of breathing misery, and my own desolate heart to endure it all.

Having passed the wall, we took our way to the house, taking care to keep in the shadows of the trees on the lawn when the moonlight shone out.

All was dark and silent, the black shadows thrown by the moonlight seeming full of a silent mystery of their own.